Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what equalities impact assessment his department has made of Clean Air Zones; and if he will make an assessment of the equalities impact of methods of notification to (a) local and (b) non-local road users of (i) Zone location and (ii) payment requirements.

A wide range of distributional and equalities analysis is carried out to determine which groups could be unduly impacted by proposed Clean Air Zones (CAZ). Each local authority’s distributional impact assessment is conducted in line with Defra guidance, which mandates the types of analysis and demographic groups that must be considered, as a minimum. These assessments are subsequently used to inform what mitigation measures could be introduced to alleviate the adverse impacts identified for the relevant groups. Individual local authority CAZ distributional impact assessments can be found published on their respective websites.